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Why is the top search result default instead of all results?
At version 8.10.4 and I'm still pining for a "normal" search UX.
It's simple:
* Enter your search term
* Hit Return
In every other app in the universe this filters the current list of items to match the search terms. Only 1Password is in its own little universe of "I know! Whichever item happened to sort first today is surely the one you want!" and never filters the list at all. Maddeningly, it shows the exact result I want, but only in its temporary pop-up that disappears the moment I hit Return.
It should actually not even need the Return keypress and just filter in real time as I type.
I'm not seeing how the current state of dumping the user into the middle of the full list of presumably-unrelated items is in any way superior to a filtered list of only items containing the search terms, given that the Return Key leaves (or would leave) the user with the same item selected either way. If that was the right item, great; if not, now it's easy to find the right one in the filtered list. At least give us a checkbox in Preferences to switch it to expected behavior.
(Never even mind the strangeness of having duelin' "Search" and "Find" commands that return unpredictably different results. "Find" filters the list, but doesn't even have a dedicated input field, and even then confusingly returns a different number of results—e.g. Search in "All Items" may return 5 items, but Find returns 3...what?)
Search is the only thing in 1Password that seems to be messed up, most everything else seems to be quite smooth for me, which is why it stands out.